Install X after a minimal installation

Chris Hewitt fedlist at manordata.uklinux.net
Mon Aug 2 19:42:03 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:30, robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jludwig
> > Sent: 02 August 2004 17:26
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: Install X after a minimal installation
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:31, robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> > > Can anyone point me at a guide that will tell me which packages to 
> > > install to get X working? Or some other trouble-shooting guide?
> >
> > It appears that maybe X is starting but you are being dropped 
> > back into say tty1 because of no Xserver.
> > 
> > 1) Try alt+F7 after starting to see if there is any video at 
> > all. (My system will display the video BIOS startup text) 
> 
> Nope, nothing.
> 
> > 
> > 2) What Xserver are you using kde gdm ......
> 
> I had installed gdm.
> 
> > 3) Modify Xorg.conf for minimal video settings. (Bad settings 
> > should have given an error)
> 
> Don't think that was the problem.
>  
> > Try; (I am not sure of these, but should force installation of
> > dependencies)
> >  yum -t -y install kdebase
> >  yum -t -y install gnome-session
> 
> Well, what I did was to issue an rpm query command like this:
> 
> # rpm -qa --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME},%{NAME%}\n" | sort -nr > rpmlist.txt
> 
> This gave me a list of installed rpms in the order I'd installed them.
> 
> I worked out where I'd started messing with the X stuff, and deleted
> everything before that point from the file.
> 
> I then munged the list of packages into a big "rpm -e" command and deleted
> everything!
> 
> Then I used "apt-get install gnome-session".
> 
> Hmmm. "startx" is not present now. Looks like I need to install something
> else...

Robin,

This may be stating the obvious, but given the problems you are coming
across, you could probably have a full system with X quicker if you
reinstalled from scratch from the CDs.

HTH
Chris





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